I was talking with a woman I'd met during a "freecycle" pickup and we
were talking about things we collect. She mentioned she used to have an
old DECmate with all the floppies and books. It was in her ex-husbands
basement and she agreed to ask if it was still around.
It wasn't and it had met the worst fate :-(
-James
Looking for a 3278, 3279, or 3194 (IBM terminals). I guess the 3194's are
preferred just due to shipping weight.
Anyone have one around for trade?
Jay West
> The cleaner portion sometimes has an amazing looking mechanism I've
> heard called "ruby blades".
AKA "Tape Scrapers"
Earliest cleaners used razor blades. Replace with harder materials
later.
> These can clean and burnish tapes in good
> shape but can also ruin a tape in bad shape.
It sounds like what you have are bad tapes.
Why would you risk them on a certifier/cleaner?
Along the same line of sharing from AL, can you share with us what
equipment
you use to scan books, manuals, and papers in order to archive them on
bitsavers?
--
Primary scanner is a Ricoh IS520.
B&W up to 400dpi, double sided, 30ppm, handles 11x17 sheets
Built like tanks. I think we have a dozen of them now between
Eric and I. Just found two on eBay for under $300 ea incl
shipping.
SW is windows-based and quirky, but after running a million
or so pages through it you learn to get around the bugs.
I made the decision a long time ago that the data on the pages
was more important than the bindings, so bound docs and books
are disassembled to scan.
If I can find bound docs in poor condition (water damage, etc.)
I'll use those first.
I have a Mustek 11x17 flatbed SCSI scanner for large format or
color scanning.
I also have a Mekel M560 microfiche/aperture card scanner that
I'm just getting up to speed on, and a couple of large format (36")
scanners that I need to get going, and a bunch of 3M microfilm
scanners in storage.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>
> Sent: Aug 18, 2005 1:58 PM
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: 1/2" tape cleaner?
>
>
> Ashley's plea for empty dectape reels made me think I should ask here...
>
> I'm looking to find a 1/2" tape cleaner. Anyone on the east coast have
> one they don't need?
>
> I'd also be curious to hear from Ashley (or others) how reading old
> DECtapes goes - do you ever have "sticktion" problems? or see stick-shed
> syndrom?
>
> (ah, I remember watching os/8 load off a dectape unit connected to an 8/i
> running tss/8... It had 4 8/l's slaved off it and 'served' the dectape drive
> up to which ever asked for it)
>
> -brad
I think that Al Kossow has lots of experience reading old DECtapes based on
the good DecTape archives that he has on bitsavers. Al, can you share a
little of your experience and insight with the rest of us? How well do these
things hold up 30-35 years later when they are actually being read and
written to on a TU56?
Ashley
Does anyone have any empty DECtape reels? I think I'm getting ready to start my TU56 / TC11 restoration and I don't want to waste "good" DECtape reels that have tape on them just to get a couple empty "take-up" reels.
Thanks,
Ashley
P.S. On another note, does anyone have any decent TU56/TC11 that they would be interested in selling in case mine ends up being too far gone? Mine's definitely a fixer-upper, but I believe it's all there. I'm also looking for a high speed DEC paper tape reader/punch (PC05/PC11).
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> I know. And if you want to leave a unix shell and you type "exit", you
> then have to press Enter to do it.
No, you don't have to do this - you can just press ^D instead. In fact
on truly Classic UNIX (V7 and 4.3BSD) this is the ONLY way - exit only
stops shell scripts, but won't terminate an interactive shell.
MS
> From the auction description:
> WHEN INSTALLED IN DISK DRIVE PLAYS A SPIKE JONES HIT
> WTF????
> Any of you HP gurus care to 'splain this to me?
Probably a reference to Spike's musical talent ...
"A chef in a railroad restaurant taught him how to use
adapted pots and pans, forks, knives and spoons as
musical instruments."
Cheers,
Lee
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On 8/18/05, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> >Had to have been AOL, sorry. QLink only ever was a Commodore service. There
> >was a GEOS-based AOL client for DOS, and I think that did appear in some
> >Radio Shack stores. I don't know if it was an official promo deal, though.
The GEOS AOL client was the official AOL client on the PC before the
Windows first windows client was released (ca. 1995?). It shipped
with a run time GEOS environment.
